Dial A Sail Answers

The Questions and Answers to the Dial A Sail Questionnaire

1. The Winds are from the S.E.The Rhumb line is 155* PSC (per ships compass)
What will the compass read on the tacks necessary to get there?
What are the Points of Sail?

ANSWER: 180* and 90* Close Hauled.
Faster is Port Tack Close Reach 205*
Starboard Tack Close Hauled 90*

2. The Compass reads 220*.The wind is from the N.E.
What tack are you on?     What is your Point of Sail?
ANSWER: Port Tack on a Run.   In the accidental jibe area.

3. The winds are from the N.E. What is the Compass reading for the accidental jibe area?   What would be a safe heading on each tack?

ANSWER: From 200* to 250* Port Tack LESS THAN 200*
Starboard Tack MORE THAN 250*

4. The winds are from 220*.What will the compass read on a Starboard Tack Close Hauled?
ANSWER: 175*

5. The wind is out of N.E. What will the compass read on a Port Tack Close reach? Starboard Tack close reach?

ANSWER: 113* Port Tack. 337* Starboard Tack

6. The wind is from the S.E. What will the compass read on a Port Tack, Broad Reach?
ANSWER: 270

7. Your compass reads 330*. The winds are from the E. What tack and point of sail are you on?

ANSWER: Starboard Tack between a Broad Reach and a Beam Reach

8. The winds are from the S.W. What are the best tacks and point of sail to make good a course of 185* P.S.C. (per ships compass)?
ANSWER: Starboard 180* Port 337* Faster: Starboard 155* and
Port of 270*

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